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Your Friends Could Be Sharing Your Phone Number with ChatGPT - Slashdot (yro.slashdot.org)
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"ChatGPT is getting more social," reports PC Magazine, "with a new feature that allows you to sync your contacts to see if any of your friends are using the chatbot or any other OpenAI product..."

It's "completely optional," [OpenAI] says. However, even if you don't opt in, anyone with your number...

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[-] one_old_coder@piefed.social 6 points 6 months ago

Creepy and illegal in some countries. But it doesn't surprise me coming from the inventor of the Orb and the Big Clunker.

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